Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 2 | If we progress past the 2nd playing round in either — we tend to go a long way … otherwise we tendto get caught cold as it were … and in the FA cup draw the finalists/winners … |
| 3 | I hear you 've come a long way . " |
| 4 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 5 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
| 6 | An inventor has developed a high-flying way of scaring birds away from growing crops . |
| 7 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 8 | Now , you 'll be pleased to learn , a Lincolnshire company has developed an inexpensive way of drastically reducing that particular hazard , as temporarily as necessary , for instance , while your children are young . |
| 9 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 10 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 11 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 12 | All the family can enjoy eating the low-fat way and it will do everyone a world of good . |
| 13 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
| 14 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 15 | If you want to know the correct way to squat , then just watch a child of two or three because they are doing it all the time . |
| 16 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 17 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 18 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 19 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 20 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 21 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 22 | Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants . |
| 23 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 24 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 25 | If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way . |
| 26 | He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way . |
| 27 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 28 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 29 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 30 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |